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November 10, 2004

Paul's daily links visualized

— I’d like to do some infoviz with my own link history and vias via Matt Haughey #

CiteULike

— a Del.icio.us-like bookmarking tool for academic papers via Alf Eaton #
November 9, 2004

Video: Mark Osborne's "More"

— astounding and moving Claymation short #

Nintendo DS hands-on review

— tons of screenshots, and a quirky thumb stylus via Simon Carless #

How to play flipbook videos on the iPod Photo

— it’s like a $600 digital Mutoscope! #

Google hosting the new Firefox 1.0 start page

— interesting move for Google #

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released

— the best consumer product out of the open-source movement #
November 8, 2004

Koders, a search engine for source code

— search the source of thousands of open-source projects via Philipp Lenssen #

Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 mailing list ordeal

— 15,000,000 internal “me too!” e-mails consumed 195GB in less than two days via Jeremy Zawodny #

Vintage snapshots from the '50s, '60s and early '70s

— from the always-good Imaginary World #

Strongbad E-Mail DVD

— the first 100 e-mails on three discs with lots of extras, buy it now via David Ely #

Imitating Flickr's annotations in DHTML

— very impressive via Delicious #

Google Answers on the economics of coffeehouse wifi

— plus, a good discussion of the free vs. fee debate #

DJ Riko's MP3 mashup mixes

— the longer mixes, like “Latter Day Taints,” are excellent #

Terrible "Six Feet Under" headlines

— headline writers have a pun field day #

Celebrity candids on Flickr

— nice recent shots of Peter Jackson #

Gmail snooping for illegal attachments?

— rumor: one user’s account cancelled for keygens and cracks in his inbox via @insidegoogle #

IMSmarter, free IM enhancement proxy

— I’ve been using the beta for months, very cool via Boing Boing #

Pricenoia, on-the-fly comparison of Amazon's global sites

— with real-time currency conversion and estimated shipping via kokogiak.com #

Adrian Tomine's New Yorker cover

— Seth’s cover was nice, too #
November 7, 2004

404 error in a textbook

— common Microsoft Word error slips into print via Ben Hammersley #

Movie: Jon Udell demonstratesvoice dictation software

— hypnotic demo of this software via Jeremy Zawodny #
November 6, 2004

Real-life landmarks in GTA San Andreas

— I wonder if they modeled my office building via Nelson Minar #

42 Entertainment

— the company behind ILoveBees finally revealed via Simon Carless #

Reuters overview of BitTorrent

— surprisingly, with links to legal torrent sites! yay! #

When web designers retaliate

— the site was originally designed by this guy #
November 5, 2004

10×10, hourly snapshot of 100 words and pictures from the current news

— well designed, by the Wordcount guy via idletype.com #

Half-Life 2 SDK released

— would someone please make a Disneyland mod for me? via IGN #

Our Traditional Non-Traditional Wedding

— Wired’s Steve Silberman on being a married gay man via Boing Boing #

Tivo adds show permalinks

— they coincidentally added it the same day George requested it #

Capture the Map

— a strategic game using the Google API via Eyebeam #

Furdlog on the MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign

— don’t miss their delusional glossary #

Obesity raising airline fuel costs

via Simon Carless #

Blendie, the scream-controlled blender

— also: ScreamBody, the wearable scream recorder via Engadget #

Cringely on TV2ME

— is there an open-source howto for doing this? #
November 4, 2004

Improv Anywhere's Best Gig Ever

— the guerilla improv troupe’s other conquests are amazing, like The Hypnotist, Ted’s Birthday, and Writers Against Piracy via Delicious #

How many cookies are inside Cookie Dough Ice Cream?

— answer: two not very good cookies via Rob Cockerham #

2004 county election map, with proportional colors

— a very different picture than this via Kottke #

Video: New Star Wars teaser trailer

— currently “members only” on Starwars.com #

Gamestop stop Nintendo DS preorders

— also: DS games will be $30, cheaper than GBA games via Slashdot #

More details on the MPAA's pending lawsuits against movie filesharers

— they posted several press releases about the actions #

Sales in virtual goods top $100 million

— Castranova added up auction sales to get the lowball estimate #

Postal Service agrees to cross-promotion with USPS

— bizarre terms of the band name’s settlement #

Fox reporting that Ashcroft is resigning

— also, they’re saying Colin Powell may be leaving too #
November 3, 2004

Mario Quilt

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Canada 2.0

— this made me laugh #

Mikester's background on today's Boondocks strip

— their long lead times cause them to sidestep timely news #

Electing to Leave

— a reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3 via The Morning News #
November 2, 2004

Visualizations of five years of Plasticbag blog postings

— looks like Processing is a good environment for infoviz via Delicious #

Cartoon Network airing same Harvey Birdman episode 24 times tonight

— to encourage people to watch something more important via Delicious #
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